John Szarkowski
♂ American, 1925–2007
John worked at MoMA from about 1962 to 1989 as Curator and Installer , and he was head of the Department of Photography from 1962–1991 . He has been in three exhibitions at MoMA, between 1958 and 1962.
84 exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
Photographs from the Museum Collection
26 November 1958 to 18 January 1959
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.
30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum
18–29 November 1959
Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.
3 April to 15 May 1962
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.
Ernst Haas: Color Photography
21 August to 28 October 1962
John Szarkowski, Ernst Haas, Grace M. Mayer and Herbert Migdoll were involved.
Five Unrelated Photographers
28 May to 21 July 1963
John Szarkowski, Kathleen Haven, Garry Winogrand and Minor White, among others, were involved.
Photographs by Lartigue
1 July to 3 November 1963
John Szarkowski, Jacques-Henri Lartigue and Joseph Del Valle were involved.
The Photographer and the American Landscape
24 September to 1 December 1963
Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Arthur Drexler and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.
The Photographer's Eye
27 May to 23 August 1964
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.
The Photo Essay
16 March to 16 May 1965
John Szarkowski, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange and Irving Penn, among others, were involved.
Elliott Erwitt: Improbable Photographs
30 June to 3 October 1965
John Szarkowski and Elliott Erwitt were involved.
Glamour Portraits
2 August to 19 September 1965
Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Man Ray and Irving Penn, among others, were involved.
The Hampton Album
11 January to 10 April 1966
John Szarkowski and Frances Benjamin Johnston were involved.
Dorothea Lange
26 January to 10 April 1966
John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange and Kathleen Haven were involved.
Marie Cosindas: Polaroid Color Photographs
13 April to 4 July 1966
John Szarkowski, Kathleen Haven and Marie Cosindas were involved.
Walker Evans' Subway, 1938–1941
5 October to 11 December 1966
John Szarkowski and Walker Evans were involved.
From the McAlpin Collection
14 December 1966 to 12 February 1967
Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, among others, were involved.
New Documents
28 February to 7 May 1967
John Szarkowski, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus were involved.
26 April to 16 July 1967
John Szarkowski, Pierre Cordier, Denis Brihat and Jean-Pierre Sudre were involved.
Once Invisible
20 June to 11 September 1967
John Szarkowski, Berenice Abbott, Andreas Feininger and Dr. Harold E. Edgerton, among others, were involved.
Ben Schultz Memorial Exhibition
9 February to 31 March 1968
John Szarkowski, Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Paul Strand, among others, were involved.
25 June to 2 September 1968
John Szarkowski and Henri Cartier-Bresson were involved.
3 August to 29 September 1968
John Szarkowski and Joel Meyerowitz were involved.
17 December 1968 to 10 March 1969
John Szarkowski and William Gedney were involved.
Atget
1 December 1969 to 24 March 1970
John Szarkowski, Eugène Atget and Yolanda Hershey were involved.
Sherman's Campaign: Photographs by George N. Barnard
27 January to 13 April 1970
John Szarkowski and George Barnard were involved.
Photography: New Acquisitions
16 April to 5 July 1970
John Szarkowski, Robert Adams, William Eggleston and Eve Sonneman, among others, were involved.
East 100th Street: Photographs by Bruce Davidson
22 September to 29 November 1970
John Szarkowski and Bruce Davidson were involved.
E.J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits
19 November 1970 to 10 January 1971
John Szarkowski, Lee Friedlander and John Ernest Joseph (E.J.) Bellocq were involved.
Berenice Abbott
10 December 1970 to 28 February 1971
John Szarkowski and Berenice Abbott were involved.
From the Picture Press
30 January to 29 April 1973
John Szarkowski and Carole Kismaric were involved.
Photography: Recent Acquisitions
17 July to 10 October 1973
John Szarkowski, Jim Dine, Harry Callahan and Lee Friedlander, among others, were involved.
22 October 1973 to 20 January 1974
John Szarkowski and Bill Dane were involved.
New Japanese Photography
27 March to 19 May 1974
John Szarkowski, Ishimoto Yasuhiro, Shomei Tomatsu and Ken Domon, among others, were involved.
Jacob Israel Avedon: Photographed by Richard Avedon
1 May to 16 June 1974
John Szarkowski, Richard Avedon and Marvin Israel were involved.
Photographs from the Harvard Social Ethics Collection
17 June to 2 September 1974
John Szarkowski, Frances Benjamin Johnston, J. H. Adams and Percy Byron, among others, were involved.
16 September to 20 October 1974
John Szarkowski and Helen Levitt were involved.
Lee Friedlander
6 December 1974 to 17 February 1975
John Szarkowski and Lee Friedlander were involved.
16 March to 20 June 1976
John Szarkowski, Edward Weston, Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.
Photographs by William Eggleston
24 May to 1 August 1976
John Szarkowski and William Eggleston were involved.
Longer Views: 40 Photographs by Nick Nixon
22 July to 3 October 1976
John Szarkowski and Nicholas Nixon were involved.
Tina Modotti
10 January to 5 April 1977
John Szarkowski, Tina Modotti and Richard Benson were involved.
Courthouse
12 April to 10 July 1977
John Szarkowski, Tod Papageorge, Stephen Shore and Nicholas Nixon, among others, were involved.
Photographs by Chauncey Hare
18 July to 22 October 1977
John Szarkowski and Chauncey Hare were involved.
Herbert Bayer: Photographic Works
31 October 1977 to 29 January 1978
John Szarkowski and Herbert Bayer were involved.
Jerry Dantzic and the Cirkut Camera
9 May to 30 July 1978
John Szarkowski, Jerry Dantzic and Peter Scotese were involved.
Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960
26 July to 2 October 1978
Robert Rauschenberg, John Szarkowski, Andy Warhol and Sol LeWitt, among others, were involved.
Art Sinsabaugh: Landscapes
7 August to 31 October 1978
John Szarkowski and Art Sinsabaugh were involved.
Grain Elevators: Photographs by Frank Gohlke
7 November 1978 to 4 February 1979
John Szarkowski and Frank Gohlke were involved.
Prairie: Photographs by Robert Adams
9 February to 1 May 1979
John Szarkowski and Robert Adams were involved.
Ansel Adams and the West
5 September to 28 October 1979
John Szarkowski and Ansel Adams were involved.
American Landscapes
9 July to 4 October 1981
Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz, among others, were involved.
The Work of Atget: Old France
3 October 1981 to 3 January 1982
John Szarkowski and Eugène Atget were involved.
The Work of Atget: The Art of Old Paris
14 October 1982 to 4 January 1983
John Szarkowski and Eugène Atget were involved.
Big Pictures by Contemporary Photographers
13 April to 28 June 1983
Robert Rauschenberg, John Szarkowski, Sol LeWitt and David Hockney, among others, were involved.
Selections from the Permanent Collection: Photography
Started 17 May 1984
John Szarkowski was involved.
From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink
15 November 1984 to 3 March 1985
Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and Man Ray, among others, were involved.
The Work of Atget: Modern Times
14 March to 14 May 1985
John Szarkowski and Eugène Atget were involved.
The Work of Atget: The Ancien Régime
14 March to 14 May 1985
John Szarkowski and Eugène Atget were involved.
A Personal View: Photography in the Collection of Paul F. Walter
23 May to 13 August 1985
John Szarkowski and August Sander were involved.
New Photography: Zeke Berman, Antonio Mendoza, Judith Joy Ross, and Michael Spano
22 August to 3 December 1985
John Szarkowski, Zeke Berman, Judith Joy Ross and Michael Spano, among others, were involved.
Variants
12 December 1985 to 11 March 1986
Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.
New Photography 2: Philip Lorca di Corcia, Mary Frey, and David Hanson
9 October 1986 to 6 January 1987
John Szarkowski, David T. Hanson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Mary E. Frey were involved.
Lartigue: Panoramas of the Twenties
15 January to 3 March 1987
John Szarkowski, Jacques-Henri Lartigue and Isabelle Jammes were involved.
The Photographs of Josef Albers: A Selection from the Collection of the Josef Albers Foundation
27 January to 19 April 1988
John Szarkowski and Josef Albers were involved.
Siskind from the Collection
20 July to 16 October 1989
John Szarkowski and Aaron Siskind were involved.